STEAM Garden as a Provocation

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STEAM garden as a provocation: Teaching, Community and Transdisciplinary Research Practices

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The Teacher Education, Curriculum, and Pedagogy (TECP) Hub and Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG) invite you to a two-day experience focusing on teaching, community, collective artistic action, and transdisciplinary research methodologies. The event is part of the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture series and is supported by funding from the Robertson Endowment, UK Innovate, and Horizon Europe Project SENSE: The New European Roadmap to STEAM Education.

** It is possible to join on either Thursday or Friday, or both days, of the event. If you wish to attend both days, please sign up to each day separately on this website.**

Day 1 (Thursday 25th September, 3.30pm-6.00pm at Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House School of Education and Sport), celebrates the ‘STEAM’ garden, a transdisciplinary construct which integrates the practices of the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics with those of the Arts, Design and Crafts. The exhibition opens with a talk from visual artist Jane Wheeler in conversation with an interdisciplinary panel chaired by Laura Colucci-Gray and Kirsten Darling-McQuistan, taking inspiration from Jane Wheeler’s painting “Tell me you Come Home” currently displayed on site at Moray House School of Education and Sport. A collective artistic action will follow in the Moray House quad and will continue in Charteris Land with the official opening of the exhibition of artworks and poetry readings by student teachers enrolled in the Postgraduate Diploma of Primary Education.

Day 2 (Friday 26th September, 9.00am-3.30pm, venues to be announced), focuses on curricula and educational practices, inviting participants in a range of workshops inspired by the STEAM garden and drawing on resources and materials developed during the SENSE. project. The aim is to bring a diverse community of people into conversation to inspire human thinking about life and mortality, order and power, and for educational research to nurture greater awareness of the ways in which we come to know the world.

Further information can be found on the full invitation.

If you have any enquiries regarding this event, please contact Dr Jonathan Hancock at jonathan.hancock@ed.ac.uk.

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